How do I find a chiropractor?
Chiropractors are “primary contact” health care providers, which means you don’t have to be referred to them by a physician or anyone else. You can select your own chiropractor. As with any other professional, referrals from friends and acquaintances are an excellent way to find a good chiropractor.

What conditions do chiropractors treat?
Chiropractors are experts trained in the neuromusculoskeletal system . They diagnose and treat disorders of the spine and other body joints by adjusting the spinal column or through other corrective manipulation. Chiropractors provide conservative management of neuromusculoskeletal disorders including, but not limited to, back, neck, arms, legs, knees, shoulders, hips, and head pain (over 80 percent of conditions treated). They also advise patients on corrective exercises, lifestyle and nutrition.

Is Chiropractic manipulation a safe procedure?
Chiropractic adjustment or manipulation is a drug-free, non-invasive approach to common musculoskeletal conditions such as headache, neck and back pain. As such, it is a low risk therapy. Complications arising from adjustment are rare.

Is every patient’s treatment the same?
The treatment a patient receives is related to the specific condition diagnosed by the Chiropractor, and will vary from person to person depending on each person’s unique situation. Like M.D.’s, Chiropractors follow generally accepted protocols and guidelines.

Can Chiropractic treatment provide a preventative function?
Clinical experience suggests that individuals with chronic conditions such as degenerative joint disease (osteoarthritis) or recurrent neck pain, back pain or headaches may experience less frequent and less severe symptoms when under regular Chiropractic care. This also applies to individuals in highly stressful situations and those who experience repetitive physical and postural strain from their daily activities. Whether ongoing Chiropractic treatment can prevent back pain from occurring in the first place, or prevent a previous condition from re-occurring, requires further study.

Why is there a popping sound when a joint is adjusted?
Adjustment of a joint may result in release of a gas bubble between the joints that makes a popping sound – it’s exactly the same as when you “crack” your knuckles. It is not painful. It is caused by the change of pressure within the joint resulting in gas bubbles being released.

Is Chiropractic treatment appropriate for children?
Yes, children can benefit from Chiropractic care. Children are very physically active and experience many types of falls and blows from activities of daily living as well as from participating in sports. Injuries such as these may cause many symptoms including back and neck pain, stiffness, soreness or discomfort. Chiropractic care is always adapted to the individual patient. It is a highly skilled treatment, and in the case of children, very gentle.

According to experts, as much as 20 percent of all sports-related injuries involve the lower back or neck. Running and weightlifting, and other sports that involve repetitive impact, expose children to a high risk for lumbar (lower back) injuries. Contact sports, such as soccer and football, expose the cervical spine, or neck, to injury.

Though there is no such thing as a “safe” sport, highly competitive sports, such as football, weightlifting, gymnastics, and wrestling, pose particularly higher risks of injuries, especially among children.

More than one-third of all high school football players sustain some type of injury. Soccer participants are easy candidates for mild to severe head traumas, neck injuries, cervical spine damage, headache, neck pain, dizziness, irritability, and insomnia. Heading the ball, the act of using the head to re-direct the soccer ball, has been linked with cervical injuries in children and adults. The trampoline and gymnastics also present significant risks for spinal cord injuries from unexpected and brute falls or contact with hard surfaces.

Bicycling – Poor posture can greatly increase your risks of a back injury during cycling. When riding a bike, your lower back is constantly flexing sideways and up and down. Upper back injuries can involve the flexing of the neck. And the bumps and jars incurred on the road during cycling can wreak havoc and possible compression injuries to your spine.

Golf – Common injuries incurred during the sport of golf usually involve muscle sprains and strains to the lower back.

Running/jogging – Running and jogging puts a great deal of stress on your back, since the constant pounding against a hard surface can jar, and possibly compress, structures such as vertebrae, joints, and discs.

Skiing – Skiing involves a great deal of twisting and turning motions, as well as jarring landings, all of which can cause muscle sprains and strains and in some cases, minor spinal fractures.

Swimming – Swimmers are known to incur lower back injuries. Motions such as the crawl or breaststroke can cause the lumbar region to be hyperextended. If the swimmer is not properly conditioned or warmed up, the hyperextension sometimes doesn’t subside.

Tennis – “Tennis elbow” is a layman’s term for pain on the lateral, or outside part of the elbow, on or near the bony protrusion. Tennis elbow is caused when the tendon from the elbow bone tears or is ruptured. It is no surprise that professional tennis players can become inflicted with this with all of the stress and strain they place on the joint during play. In addition, tennis players are in constant motion, and the repeated twisting and trunk rotations can cause injuries. Shoulder injuries and turned ankles and knees also are common. The act of serving the ball also has been shown to hyperextend the lower back, and possibly compress discs.

Weight lifting/body building – Body builders are at a significant risk for a host of serious back, shoulder, neck, and knee injuries. Resistance training has been known to cause muscle sprains and strains, ligament and tendon injuries, and in some cases, stress fractures (also called spondylolysis). Older people seem to be at higher risk since their bones and discs are more brittle.

Stay In The Game!

Playing sports is a lot of fun. Getting hurt is not. Take these five steps to prevent injuries so you can stay in the game:

Wear protective gear, such as helmets, protective pads, and other gear.

Warm up and cool down.

Know the rules of the game.

Watch out for others.

Don’t play when you’re injured.

The more you understand your body and how it functions, the better equipped you’ll be at taking care of yourself to achieve optimal health. Chiropractic professionals empower patients to take charge of your own health and future, educating you about your condition to decrease your need for future care. We hope you will turn to these pages whenever you have a question about health related issues and urge you to contact us at any time to schedule an appointment.

Have you heard the terms Golfer’s elbow, Tennis elbow, or Carpal tunnel? Are you taking medications that don’t seem to help? Concerned about the side effects or taking too many pain pills? Consider Chiropractic and Acupuncture to help with your arm pain.

Chiropractic Care For Carpal Tunnel

Nerves of the left upper extremity

Untreated Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Arm pain can originate in many places along the arm, any where between the neck to the wrist. Chiropractors are not only train in evaluation and care of the spine, but also legs and arms! Arm pain can be caused by a variety of causes, such as overuse, injury, and repetitive stress. Symptoms include dull pain, sharp pain, tingling, numbness, burning and weakness. Did you know that Chiropractic and Acupuncture is the best way to get long term relief from Golfer’s elbow, Tennis elbow, and Carpal tunnel?

Carpal tunnel syndrome is common in people who perform repetitive motions of the hand and wrist. Typing on a computer keyboard is probably the most common cause of carpal tunnel. Other causes include:

Sewing

Driving

Assembly line work

Painting

Writing

Use of tools (especially hand tools or tools that vibrate)

Sports such as racquetball or handball

Playing some musical instruments

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatments should be as conservative and as noninvasive as possible. For many people suffering from carpal tunnel, pain relief has been achieved without the use of drugs or surgery. Surgery has mixed outcomes and should be viewed only as a last resort after all conservative methods have failed. Chiropractic treatment has helped many patients suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with great success. If you suffer from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or a similar condition, consult your chiropractor for available treatments.

Summer officially began on June 21st, but for those of us with children, the real first day of summer is the last day of school. Most of our kids can look forward to at least three months without homework, classes or exams to worry about, and can devote their free time to sports, hobbies, or that wonderful youthful pastime of doing nothing at all.

Summer brings with it camps, swimming pools, little league, soccer, skateboards, bicycles, in-line skates, basketball, tennis, and all sorts of other physical activities. And with the increase in physical activity, there is inevitably an increase in physical injuries.

According to the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons, the summer of 2004 was a banner year for warm weather sports related injuries that required some form of medical treatment. These numbers all affected people under the age of 20.

Basketball topped the list with 1,018,619 injuries. This isn’t really surprising considering that you don’t need a lot of expensive equipment to play, and basketball courts are readily available.

Bicycling finished second with 820,789 injuries. This might seem surprising to adults who ride bicycles either for exercise or to simply get from place to place, but children often like to race or jump their bikes off of ramps or curbs.

Baseball and softball caused 422,000 injuries, many of them leg injuries from sliding into bases.

Trampolines caused 248,000 injuries, which is not at all surprising. Those of you who are considering buying a trampoline for summer use should reconsider. All you have to do is think of it in terms of proportion. Think of the enormous number of kids playing basketball, baseball, or riding bikes, and then think of the comparatively fewer number of kids that have access to trampolines, and then consider that trampoline injuries ranked number four on the list.

Swimming accidents led to 114,899 injuries, which ranged from relatively minor scrapes to severe back and spinal trauma from diving into shallow water.

You wouldn’t think that volleyball would be on the list, but this seemingly contact-free sport resulted in 91,885 separate injuries that required medical treatment.

The point of listing all of these statistics isn’t to send parents into a panic and lock their children in their rooms for the summer. Accidents can and will happen to anyone, whether you’re playing touch football, jogging, or simply sitting on a park bench. But many of the injuries listed above were easily preventable. While it’s good for your children to be active, it’s especially important for them to be safe. With a few precautions, keeping them active and out of the emergency room is a pretty simple process.

Stretching: As hard as it may be to convince your child or teenager to do this, going through even some minor stretching before exercise or other strenuous activity can dramatically reduce the chance of injury. Pulled hamstrings and strained muscles are not only painful, but can keep your child from truly enjoying his or her vacation.

Wearing Protective Gear: Obtaining protective gear for kids isn’t very difficult. But making sure that they keep it on once they are out of your sight is the tricky part. Kids have a tendency to unload protective helmets, knee and elbow pads and mouth guards whenever they are playing unsupervised. While it’s impossible for parents to keep an eye on their kids all the time, you should make it clear that playing sports and being active does have risks to go along with the rewards.

Use Safe and Reliable Equipment: Make sure that bicycles, in-line skates and skateboards are properly maintained. You should also make sure that any protective gear or sports equipment is safe. The Consumer Product Safety Commission website has a frequently updated list of recalls and safety warnings of products of all types, including sporting equipment and safety gear.

Make Sure That Your Kids Are Wearing the Right Footwear: Most of the injuries that took place on the basketball court were ankle sprains. Basketball is a sport that requires strong ankle support, and wearing shoes that don’t provide it dramatically increase your chances of an injury.

Make Sure the Playing Field is Safe: It isn’t uncommon to find rocks, holes, sharp sticks or broken glass on an area where children play. Taking three minutes to make sure that the playing surface is clean and free of dangers can be the difference between a good time and a trip between the emergency room.

Drink Plenty of Fluids: Heatstroke and heat exhaustion are fairly common occurrences during the hot summer months, and they are also the most easily preventable. Avoiding heat-based injuries is simply a matter of keeping hydrated. So make sure that your kids drink plenty of water.

Make Sure That Your Kids Are Prepared: Make absolutely sure that your kids both know the number for the police or an ambulance and have the means to call them. Cellular phone companies have several plans for parents who are concerned about children and cell phones, and making sure that your children have the ability to stay in touch is an important way to keep them safe.

Although accidents are an inevitable occurrence in anyone’s life, many sports injuries are easily preventable. Making sure that you follow these guidelines is an easy way to help guard against them.

With spring in full swing, everyone is out doing their favorite activities. While you’re enjoying the pleasures of the warm weather, it’s important to be prepared to keep yourself and your loved ones out of harm’s way. Most children enjoy outdoor activities—swimming, biking, camping and more. It’s a time when injuries ranging from playground falls and sunburns to accidents at the pool and the beach are more likely to occur.

Sports and Recreation Safety

Key Facts

More than 38 million children and adolescents participate in sports each year in the U.S.

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. households with school-age children have at least one child who plays organized sports.

Each year, more than 3.5 million children ages 14 years and under receive medical treatment for sports injuries.

Approximately two-thirds of all sports-related injuries leading to emergency department visits are for children.

The rate and severity of sports-related injury increases with a child’s age.

From 2001 through 2009, it is estimated that there are 1,770,000 emergency department visits, 6 percent of these for traumatic brain injuries, among children ages 14 and under for injuries related to sports or recreation.

Though rare, traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of sports-related death.

Approximately one out of five traumatic brain injuries among children are associated with participation in sports and recreational activities.

More than 90 percent of sports-related concussions occur without the loss of consciousness.

The most common types of sport-related injuries in children are sprains (mostly ankle), muscle strains, bone or growth plate injuries, repetitive motion injuries, and heat-related illness.

In 2009, more than 365,000 children ages 14 and under were treated in emergency departments for either football or basketball-related injuries.

Where, When and How

Most organized sports-related injuries (62 percent) occur during practice rather than games.

A national survey revealed that approximately 27 percent of parents often do not take the same safety precautions during their child’s practice as they would for a game.

Collision and contact sports are associated with higher rates of injury, however, injuries from individual sports tend to be more severe.

Each year, approximately 715,000 sports and recreation injuries occur in school settings alone.

The four activities with the most injuries to bones and muscles include bicycling, basketball, football and roller sports. These four sports lead to 1.5 million medically treated injuries among children ages 5 to 14.

It is estimated that up to 50 percent of injuries seen in pediatric sports medicine are related to overuse.

For children ages 8 to 13, the rate of sports-related concussions was highest for football and ice hockey players, when taking into account participation rates.

Among children ages 14 and under, the top five sports associated with head injuries include: cycling(40,272 injuries), football (21,878 injuries), baseball and softball (18,246 injuries), basketball (14,952 injuries) and skateboards/scooters (14,783 injuries).

For males, the highest risk of concussion in organized sports is from football, while among females, soccer and basketball are the sports with the highest risk.

Enjoy The Great Outdoors But Put Safety First!

Protect Your Noodle Wear A Helmet!

Put Safety First Wear Your Helmet!

Whether your kids are elite athletes or just shooting hoops in the driveway, there are steps you can take to keep your kids in the game and free from injury.

Whether you are riding a bicycle, in-line skates, skateboard, scooter, an ATV or dirt bike, wearing a helmet should be an automatic habit. Helmets should fit properly and also be fastened correctly. A properly-fastened and fitting helmet does not move around on the head.

Summertime means activities and fun under the sun! But even if we love to spend time outdoors in the sun, we must all be careful not to let a sports or personal injury spoil the day.

Obviously, we all as parents want what’s best for our children. We want them to be happy and most importantly, we want them to be safe and healthy. That means making chiropractic checkups as a regular part of their health care routine.

The helmet should be approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Approved helmets meet stringent safety standards.

Does insurance cover chiropractic? Are you worried about the medical bills? Minnesota is a No Fault state which means that every Minnesota auto insurance policy includes Personal Injury Protection regardless of who is at fault. If you have been injured in a motor vehicle accident, you automatically have coverage to get your injuries treated.

Having an auto accident is bad enough, dealing with the car damage, the insurance, the loss of work, but on top of that, you are in terrible pain.

What if you are not in pain? Whether you are sore or not, you should get checked out immediately. What if the pain doesn’t set in until a week or even a month after? Whiplash can be a very serious injury. You need a doctor that specialized in Whiplash or other Auto Accident Injuries. Sometimes your injuries can take weeks or months to set in. Chiropractors are trained and can help you with injuries that may not have any symptoms right away.

Whiplash Injuries and Chiropractic

Even if you don’t have any obvious or immediate symptoms after an auto accident, or other injury, I would recommend that you visit a chiropractor as soon as possible. Only then can an assessment of the severity and recovery of whiplash injury be made.

Personal Injury Protection – (PIP)

In Minnesota, drivers are required to purchase Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage, and Liability, which is separated into Bodily Injury Liability and Property Damage Liability.

Minnesota is a No Fault State. This means that your insurance company will pay for your medical bills regardless of who was at fault in the accident. After a car accident in Minnesota call your own insurance company, even if the other driver was at fault, as your medical claims will come from your own insurance through PIP.

Whether you are responsible for the accident or not, your own insurance company will pay for the medical expenses and loss of wages for you and your passengers.

Having an auto accident is bad enough, dealing with the car damage, the insurance, the loss of work, but on top of that, you are in terrible pain. What if you are not in pain? Whether you are sore or not, you should get checked out immediately. What if the pain doesn’t set in until a week or even a month after? Whiplash can be a very serious injury.

Chiropractic Care Can Help On The Road To Recovery

We can help you with that. We find out what is the source of your pain, and we come up with a personalized treatment plan that gets you the fastest relief of pain, using natural remedies, and chiropractic solutions.

You need a doctor that specialized in Whiplash or other Auto Accident Injuries. Sometimes your injuries can take weeks or months to set in. Chiropractors are trained and can help you with injuries that may not have any symptoms right away.

You don’t have to be frustrated with the “unknown”, we will listen to you, and take x-rays and come up with a complete treatment plan that will be the most beneficial to you and your injury needs. We use a healthy natural approach using Eastern Chinese Therapies. We do more than just treat the immediate issue, we follow through with your treatments, making sure to completely correct the issue.

At Achieve Health Chiropractic & Acupuncture we realize that our therapies are different than traditional medical care. Our goal is relieving you of your pain and give you a wellness plan to have you living a healthy lifestyle again.

Are you worried about the medical bills? Minnesota is a No Fault state which means that every Minnesota auto insurance policy includes Personal Injury Protection regardless of who is at fault. If you have been injured in a motor vehicle accident, you automatically have coverage to get your injuries treated.

It is well documented in the scientific community and through medical research that the brain controls all functions and regulation of the entire body. The brain communicates to all organs, tissues, muscles and glands through the spinal cord and nerve system.

Dr. Henry Windsor, who was a Medical Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania, has performed a medical experiment in 1921. In his clinical research he wanted to prove the existence of diseased organs and its interconnection to the curvature of the spine (improper posture and misaligned vertebrae. In this study he made 50 experiments on cadavers from the [pathology department. Dr Windsor dissected the bodies and looked at the diseased organs. Out of 50 bodies he found 139 organs that were in a different degree of disease.

The finding of this study showed 49 of the 50 cadavers showed curvatures, all were rigid and of long duration, similar to chiropractic subluxation and fixation patterns. All areas of the spinal deformity showed pathological tissue changes or outright disease. The disease found were cancers of involved organs, or disease of heart, gall bladder, kidney, stomach, large and small intestine. The positive correlation for organ malfunction or disease was nearly 99% in all cadavers in this study.

The Winsor Autopsies

The following are Dr. Winsor’s results:

“Two hundred twenty-one structures other than the spine were found diseased. Of these, 212 were observed to belong to the same sympathetic (nerve) segments as the vertebrae in curvature. Nine diseased organs belonged to different sympathetic segments from the vertebrae out of line.

These figures cannot be expected to exactly coincide … for an organ may receive sympathetic filaments from several spinal segments and several organs may be supplied with sympathetic (nerve) filaments from the same spinal segments. In other words, there was nearly a 100 percent correlation between minor curvatures of the spine and diseases of the internal organs.”

Diseases examined:

Stomach Diseases – All nine cases of spinal misalignment in the mid-thoracic area (T5-T9) had stomach disease.

Liver Disease – All 13 cases of liver disease had misalignments in the mid thoracic (T5-T9)

Gallstones – All five cases with gallstone disease had spinal misalignments in the mid thoracic.

Pancreas – All three cases with pancreas disease had spinal misalignments in the mid thoracics.

Spleen – All 11 cases with spleen diseases had spinal misalignments in the mid thoracics.

Kidney – All 17 cases with kidney disease were out of alignment in the lower thoracics.

Prostate and Bladder Disease – All eight cases with kidney, prostate and bladder disease had the lumbar (L2-L3) vertebrae misaligned

Uterus – The two cases with the uterine conditions had the second lumbar misaligned.

Heart Disease – All 20 cases with heart and pericardium conditions had the upper five thoracic vertebrae (T1-T5) misaligned.

Dr. Winsor’s results are published in The Medical Times, November 1921, and are found in any medical library.

This is mind boggling, and correlates exactly with the chiropractic philosophy and principles, that chiropractic adjustment of the spine can help organ malfunction and can prevent or disrupt the disease process.

Current knowledge would also play a major role in sickness or disease such as genetic factors and family histories. Nevertheless the subluxation, fixation, and spinal distortions can play a major role in the development of sickness and disease and chiropractic intervention with spinal adjustment can interrupt this cycle.

What is incredible is that there is much more research, a majority of it done in recent years that shows the benefit of chiropractic care in many aspects of health such as the immune system. Wouldn’t you want to know that chiropractic care could allow your family’s immune systems to be as healthy as they are meant to be?

The latest research shows people without any symptoms at all who receive chiropractic care IMPROVE their health.

That means there is valid scientific documentation that as you incorporate chiropractic care into your lifestyle you continue to get healthier even if you don’t have any current symptoms!

Though this study was done in 1921, ninety years ago, at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, by Henry Winsor, M.D., its finding an information are revolutionary for it time, but also hold true today.

Dr. Winsor’s results are published in The Medical Times and are found in any medical library. Winsor was not alone in his findings. Similar studies by other researchers have confirmed Dr. Winsor’s conclusion that degenerated and misaligned spines have a high correlation with disease processes.

• Reference:All quotes from: Winsor, H. Sympathetic segmental disturbances – II. The evidences of the association, in dissected cadavers, of visceral disease with vertebral deformities of the same sympathetic segments, The Medical Times , November 1921, pp./ 267-271.

Neck pain afflicts at least three quarters of people at some point in their lives, but There’s been little research on what treatments are the most helpful. Many take over-the-counter medications or visit doctors and chiropractors in search of relief. Sedentary office workers tend to be most susceptible to the condition.

Now a new study published on January 3, 2012 in The Annals of Internal Medicine has a surprising answer demonstrating the power of alternative therapies for neck pain: Chiropractic care and simple neck exercises done daily at home were much better at reducing pain than taking pain medications like aspirin, ibuprofen or even strong narcotics. It’s good news for patients that there’s something they can do themselves to take a more active role in their care — such as doing the exercises or visiting a chiropractor — instead of just swallowing a pill.

Good News For Patients With Neck Pain!

When it comes to neck pain the best medicine is no medicine at all!

Stretching exercises and a visit to the chiropractor were better at relieving neck pain than medication

And the relief provided by either exercise or spinal manipulation by a chiropractor was long-lasting — even up to a year later, when researchers checked back in with the study’s participants.

Spinal Manipulation, Medication, or Home Exercise With Advice for Acute and Subacute Neck Pain Full Text (PDF) FREE

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, involved 272 adults, aged 18 to 65 years, who had had neck pain lasting for 2 to 12 weeks. The participants were then split into three groups and followed for about three months using three different methods:

Medication

Exercise

A Chiropractor

One group visited a chiropractor for 20-minute sessions throughout the study, for an average of 15 visits total. A second group was assigned to take common pain relievers like ibuprofen or, with a doctor’s guidance, stronger drugs like narcotics and muscle relaxants.

A third group met twice with physical therapists who taught them how to do simple, gentle exercises to stretch neck muscles at home. Each exercise called for 5 to 10 repetitions done up to eight times a day.

The researchers measured the subjects’ pain throughout the treatment, including at the end of the study and at six and 12 months after the start of treatment.

Both non-medication groups reported substantially more pain relief than the medication group. After 12 weeks, about 57 percent of the chiropractic group and 48 percent of the exercise group reported at least a 75 percent reduction in pain, compared to just 33 percent of the people in the medication group.

A year later, more than half of the subjects who had received spinal manipulation or exercise still reported at least 75 percent less pain, compared to just a 38 percent reduction in pain among those who had taken medication.

It was reported by Doheny in 2006 that migraine headaches cost U.S. employers more than $24 billion annually, including direct health care costs and indirect expenses such as absenteeism—when employees whose heads are pounding stay on the job but aren’t performing up to par.

Chiropractic vs. Medication Effectiveness & Safety

In randomized clinical trials, chiropractic was 57% more effective in the reduction of headaches and migraines than drug therapy.

There has been numerous other studies done on the treatment of headaches with chiropractic. The following two studies are the most widely referenced and well respected.

Duke Study

A literature review performed by researchers at Duke University looked at a number of studies that looked at chiropractic treatment for headaches. Researchers concluded the following: “Manipulation appeared to result in immediate improvement in headache severity when used to treat episodes of cervicogenic control. Furthermore, when compared to soft-tissue therapies (massage), a course of manipulation treatments resulted in sustained improvement in headache frequency and severity.”

Migraine Study

This study compared chiropractic spinal manipulation to amitriptyline which is a medication often prescribed for the treatment of headache. The researchers found that “spinal manipulation seemed to be as effective as a well-established and efficacious treatment (amitriptyline), and on the basis of a benign side effects profile, it should be considered a treatment option for patients with frequent migraine headaches.”

In other words, the safety and effectiveness of chiropractic treatment or spinal manipulation in the treatment of headache should be considered by patients suffering these symptoms.

The researchers also found that in the weeks immediately following treatment, patients who had received spinal manipulation had a 42% reduction in headache frequency, compared to only 24% of those who took amtriptyline. The chiropractic group had fewer headaches even after treatment had ceased.

Long Term Migraine and Headache Relief

Do your migraines or headaches have you feeling frustrated and helpless? Does it seem that despite everything medication you have tried, there really is no help? Well maybe you have been overlooking a more natural treatment that for many people has offered long term relief – chiropractic treatments!

Now you might be wondering how a chiropractor can actually help, and its simple. Drugs and medications only dull the pain of headaches and migraines, they do not actually treat the problem. On the other hand, chiropractic care treats the problem itself and actually aids the body in correcting it. Correcting the problem means long term relief! Headaches and migraines can develop from many causes, therefore seeing a professional chiropractor can help you determine the cause, and treat the problem.

Nearly 14% of people who visit the chiropractor go for headaches or migraines, and many receive the long term relief they have always been looking for. If you or someone you know is suffering from migraines or headaches, visit your Minnesota Chiropractor.